Re:XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350
by haspok on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @10:25AM
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That was 2 years ago actually.
The community sorted out most of the issues, so about 6 months later the experience was actually quite good.
Dell released the Linux version of the laptop too early, I guess they wanted to get some traction but it backfired.
That's hyperbole if I've ever seen it. You can look at how many problems plagued Fedora on the XPS13 as recently as a year ago:
https://major.io/2015/02/03/linux-support-dell-xps-13-9343-2...
The tl;dr version is that the guy spent so long trying to get it working properly that he ditched the laptop for a Thinkpad. And FWIW, Fedora usually has better support for recent hardware than other distros due to the up-to-date kernel.
From what I gather, Thinkpads are the crown jewel of Linux-supported laptops. This is more of a dogfooding thing than anything else: kernel developers, Redhat employees, and other Linux users tend to use Thinkpads, which means they then spend more time getting support for Thinkpads into the kernel.